This is from the website's TOS, which happens to be the TOS for Azure as well:

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This is ridiculous. Law is part of the agreement between citizens and their government. Citizens get certain benefits like public education and healthcare, and in return must pay the government taxes and obey their laws. If the citizen disagrees with this, he can resign his citizenship, but by doing so loses the benefits of citizenship as well.

Foreigners, on the other hand, have no such agreement, and therefore it's ridiculous to charge them. What's next, Saudi Arabia charges me for having a beer tonight? North Korea charges me for criticizing their regime? Should I serious have to look up every single country's law before I do something, just to make sure I'm not breaking some obscure country's law?

American government consists of a creative bunch of people. If they can find a reason to invade and carpet bomb a sovereign country, I'm sure they'll find a way to harass citizens of foreign country.

Having a button on either side is a horrible design. I could see accidentally pressing the far button with my ring finger or pinkie all of the time with that kind of configuration, not to mention not having the ease and natural feeling of movement of being able to roll my thumb across the two buttons.

I use my side buttons in many applications. In my browser, it's forward and back a page. In my audio and video players they are used to skip forward and backward 10 seconds. In my text/code editor, they are used for page up and page down. In games they are used for jump and crouch. Having one button on either side would be a usability nightmare.

You can always disable them or assign them to do nothing. It's a 2 minutes activity. My gripe with these kind of mice is that they advert the full number of buttons that they have on the mouse without mentioning that a couple of them are practically unusable.

My Ouroboros double clicks less than a year after it was bought. Apparently there are others like me, and this doesn't only happen to the Ouroboros, but also a couple of other models, such as the Naga. My Orochi and Chimaera on the other hands, are doing great:)

As much as I'd like my government to stop pissing away Trillions of dollars playing world police, if you feel they're basically the same I'd love it if ISIS moved into your neighborhood and you got your ignorant throat slit. Although I figure a pussy like you would convert quick and join the caliphate.

As opposed to what? Hellfire missiles from a Predator drone? A group of "freedom fighters" on your government's payroll?

Most of the USA does not agree with the American religious right, which is what you are referencing. Most of ISIS does not disagree with ISIS.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter, as most of the USA has apparently failed to prevent their government from ruining and invading other poeple's countries. So yeah, that's basically the same

The upgrades are being pushed through windows update and you need at least windows 7 in order to get it. unfortunately this rules out the 68 windows xp machines I still have running in house so looks like we will most likely still be running xp for the foreseeable future. At least until I win the mega millions and donate money to the company..

Since Microsoft will provide the upgrade to pirated copies, you can always put pirated win7 install on those boxes so they can get the upgrade via windows update

Troll. flamebait, or just plain stupid ? Gotta go with flamebait, to be followed with and endless stream of pavlovian programmed responses.

well, the parent did refer to islamic extremist as "mooslimmss". Why didn't you have the same response to his post? Troll. Flamebait, or just plain stupid? I think I'll go with "plain stupid" on you. Now, since I see no benefit on extending the use of my grey cells for the lots of you, this is good bye:)